shrug There’s a lot of coins launching all the time, it’s hard to keep up. Lisk is an interesting one though. I may look into getting some from the ICO, but I kinda dislike their model of giving more Lisk to people who bought in sooner.

I’m just waiting until it’s almost over to see how many Lisk you’ll actually get for 1 BTC. Distributing the fixed supply across however much BTC they get is interesting to say the least. I’m a fan of knowing what and how much I’m getting before handing over money…

yes and no. lisk uses DPOS. in what paul said "delegated proof of stake"
basically anyone with balance can “vote” for “delegates” to recieve ALL the stake rewards
these nodes are usually 98.9% or more uptime nodes run on virtual servers
regular users like u and me? get nothing in stake. unless we are one of these 101 best uptime nodes
thats not to say you or me cant be, but it takes more work then traditional pos coins (hold and stake)
so yes you can “create more lisk” by forging, but you have to be one of the 101 voted in "delegated nodes"
to recieve ANY reward at all sadly ;(
its a trader coin, i threw most of my stash there, almost 8btc (cdn)
its easy profit , just dont sell for atleast 2-4 weeks, plain and simple (imo, not investment advice)

edit — i shouldn’t say specifically "regular users like u and me? get nothing in stake. unless we are one of these 101 best uptime nodes"
as thats not totally true. TECHNICALLY anyone can vote for anyone so having some of the best uptime may not guarantee one of the 101 spots, i mean people could vote random, or maybe someone could even manipulate users somehow (advertising?) so i don’t want you to think a 99+% uptime node will GUARANTEE a spot in the rewarded 101 delagates, as it won’t haha, but 95% of the time the votes end up with best uptime nodes (bts, xem)

well theres ALOT to lisk, so i wont go through it all, i implore you if interested to check out lisk.io ;D
like any coin you can do w.e you want with it, but for me personally its just a profit thing
if you look at the big icos last 12 months theres nothing but net baby
easy money if your not a weak hand trader

Lisk is a cryptocurrency project aiming to make it simple to build and deploy decentralized applications (DApps) on the blockchain. It uses JavaScript to program the DApps.

Lisk is a new cryptocurrency project with the aim of making it as easy as possible for developers to build and deploy their decentralized applications (DApps). Lisk is especially noteworthy in its use of JavaScript as the programming language that will power these DApps. JavaScript is one of the most common languages that most web developers are familiar with, and therefore Lisk is able to tap into a huge market of existing developers throughout the globe.

Lisk aims to make it easier to build DApps for developers who may find Ethereum challenging to learn, or just provides an alternative to developers, so they are not overly dependent on Ethereum for their DApps. Lisk has created a clever infrastructure around this project, which includes a Lisk DApp Store that will list the DApps built by people, for ease of discoverability. Lisk will likely lower the barriers to entry into this exciting new space.

Lisk is also one of the few blockchain and cryptocurrencies listed on Microsoft Azure. In fact, it finds a mention in Azure’s official blog, along with other projects like Augur, Bitshares, Syscoin, and Slock.it.

Lisk makes it easy to integrate with existing services that a lot of web software developers are familiar with, such as Github. In its current infrastructure, Lisk will assign a new sidechain to each DApp but aims to use a Virtual Machine (VM) architecture in the future. The BTC Geek spoke to Max Kordek, the CEO of the Lisk project –

“Lisk offers a unique solution for JavaScript developers to deploy their own blockchain and develop a decentralized application on top of it. We think it’s high time to spread thousands of blockchains with different use-cases throughout the whole world.”

Lisk is branched out of the Crypti community, where a segment of the initial team diverged in their vision and started Lisk. This shows the community is already familiar with cryptocurrencies in general. Crypti raised 750 Bitcoins in its Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Lisk is also going through the ICO process, and has raised several thousand Bitcoin already. The ICO is expected to last until March 20th 2016.

Projects like Lisk help spread the idea of cryptocurrencies and blockchain to the more mainstream developer community that may not be very familiar with blockchains in general and therefore fear treading into the space due to a steep learning curve. By working with tools, technologies, and sites including Github, Docker, and Node, Lisk aims to make building decentralized applications as easy as building any regular web application. It also abstracts away a lot of low-level code by providing useful APIs, which make the developer further simplified. Lisk a beginner-friendly version of a cryptocurrency that allows for the creation of DApps.

well the crowdsale is over now
final raised ----- 15,000BTC
final price per lisk ----- 0.00018500BTC
"launch" date - - - - - on or before april 11th

so i made a killing on eth crowdsale and augur, but here’s lisk…
got oversold to hell omg there were 1000BTC chunks at once coming in ;
so this one may take a while, but to the patient go the spoils ;D
anyone else end up buying in ?
i got about 19,000 coins ;(
i will place sell order first day at 125k shat and walk away
may take a week may take a month but it will hit
i hope…
;p

Single hash generated vs. trillions of valid but discarded hashes generated to secure blockchain in one blocktime
Makes no sense at all

I’ve explained this several times. Churning out trillions of wasted hashes means lots of wasted electricity - like literally a nuclear powerplant’s worth for Bitcoin - and is an ever-growing financial overhead that will ultimately kill the coin.

No, it’s the key reason Lisk can run on a $9 CHIP computer and Ethereum can’t. Economies of scale hugely favor Lisk over BTC/ETH.

Stable roundtable clockwork forging vs. unsustainable, exponentially growing free-for-all mining
Forging is no different than mining … just different ways to make the currency

It is so sad to see people that don’t understand enough math to get why exponential growth is unsustainable, or why a stable system is different and better from an unstable one.

Dapps on individual sidechains vs. dapps on bloated mainchain
Ethereum dapps are also sidechains … lol … you seem to be uninformed

The Ethereum Guide says its dapps are deployed on the mainchain ( https://gavofyork.gitbooks.io/turboethereum/content/dapps_deployment.html ). Practically, in Ethereum dapps are just specialized “contracts”. There’s my showdown cards in this poker hand - what’s your counter-reference to prove what you are saying about Ethereum sidechains? Prove to me that each dapp in Ethereum has its own separate blockchain as they do in Lisk.

Min of 2-4 to max of 101 cheap $35 Pi2 / $9 CHIP microcomputers needed for each sidechain backbone vs. large, unlimited numbers of expensive GPU systems needed for mainchain backbone
The GPU rings will not be used once POS for eth sets in

So…PoS for ETH is vaporware, got it. How can you know that Eth PoS will run on microcomputers like Lisk does if ETH PoS finally shows up? What happens to all those sad little GPU miners whose income stream will be cut off?

Sidechain dapps permanently free vs. mainchain perpetual “gas” payments required
Ah … What can possibly be the use of the beloved LISK then …

What part of “free” vs. “paying for ETH gas” is so hard to understand? Free is better. Lisk is still the exchange coin of choice within the dapp itself.